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Samuel Sperling is Trouble-Finder at City Hall

Articles by Samuel:

  • The Under-Utilization of City Employees
  • Success and Failure in the Villaraigosa Administration
  • Letter to the New Mayor of Los Angeles
  • Raising Employee Productivity
  • Unused Capacity at City Hall
  • Questions About HRM in a Greuel Administration
  • Why Eric Garcetti Should Be Elected Mayor of Los Angeles
  • OMG! Boss Riordan May Be Coming Back to City Hall!
  • Seven Failures That Cripple Mayor Villaraigosa’s Job Performance
  • Ask Not What Your City Can Do for You … Ask What You Can Do for Your City
  • Board of Handcuffed Commissioners
  • Civil Service: An Issue Mayoral Candidates Must Address
  • Mismanaging a Four-Billion Dollar Workforce
  • Budget Games at City Hall
  • The Blind Men and the Elephant
  • We All Lose When Our Leaders Ignore These Regulations
  • An Open Letter to Eight Mayoral Candidates
  • In Los Angeles, the Next Mayor Must Fix a Broken Civil Service System
  • An Unfair Campaign for City Controller
  • It’s Time to Audit HRM in City Departments
  • Do-It-Yourself Retirement Planning
  • Changing the Charter Without a Vote of the People
  • Five Ways to Cut the Cost of City Government
  • Civil Service Problems in Los Angeles
  • A Century of Corruption at City Hall
  • Mismanagement in the Los Angeles Police Department
  • Mismanagement in the Los Angeles Police Department
  • A Column About Waste and Mismanagement in City Government
  • We, the People of Los Angeles….
  • What Gives the Mayor the Right to Kill Civil Service?
  • An Angeleno’s Duty
  • The Making of a Curmudgeon
  • The Making of a Curmudgeon
  • TOP-HEAVINESS JACKS-UP THE COST OF CITY GOVERNMENT
  • HOW A CITY HALL GANG CHEATS THE PUBLIC
  • ARE ANGELENOS ANGRY? ARE FISH WET?
  • IN LOS ANGELES, GOOD GOVERNMENT BEGINS WITH YOU AND ME
  • WHY LOS ANGELES NEEDS A GOOD, STRONG MAYOR
  • COMMENTS ON LAST WEEK’S MAYORAL DEBATE
  • THE FIGHT FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT IN LOS ANGELES — ROUND TWO
  • The Fight for Good Government in Los Angeles — Round One
  • Statement to the Los Angeles City Council
  • Why in the World Would Anyone Want to Kill Civil Service?
  • What Do Angelenos Get for Their Investment in City Employees?
  • What L.A. Taxpayers Should Know About Liability Claims Paid by the City
  • Do Public Servants in Los Angeles Really Serve the Public?
  • Anyplace, USA / Los Angeles, California
  • The Paterno Firing Should Put City Management on Notice
  • In Los Angeles, the Selection of Civil Service Employees Is Stuck on Stupid
  • Questions About the City’s New Fraud Policy
  • A Citizen’s Complaint About Governmental Wrongdoing
  • L.A. Is My Home; It’s My Duty to Keep an Eye on City Hall
  • Angelenos Pay More Than They Should for the City Services They Get
  • You Weren’t Paranoid, Sam: Your Phone Was Bugged
  • A Citizen’s Suggestion to the City Council’s Budget Committee
  • Angelenos Should Not Be Taxed to Help City Politicians Win Elections
  • Is Employee Selection Stuck on Stupid, or What?
  • Surprise: Councilman Cardenas and His 18 Aides Prevail
  • How Collective Bargaining Works at City Hall
  • An Open Letter to the Honorable Scott Walker, Governor of the State of Wisconsin
  • Performance Standards for City Government
  • In Los Angeles, Should Incumbent Council Members be Replaced?
  • If You’re Running for a Council Seat, Being an Incumbent May Be a Big Advantage
  • Challenges Facing the Voters of Los Angeles
  • Two Ways to Fail
  • Will the New Year Bring Civil Service Reform to Los Angeles?
  • An Open Letter to Mayor Villaraigosa and Members of the Los Angeles City Council
  • Does the Mayor Really Think City Government Works Better Without Transparency?
  • Short-cutting the Selection of City Employees Dumbs Down the Civil Service System
  • What the Mayor Could Do To Help Los Angeles Recover From Its Current Crisis
  • Is Mayor Villaraigosa Really Trying to Wreck the City’s Civil Service System?
  • Secrecy Lets Officials Corrupt the City’s Civil Service System
  • An Endorsement: Steve Cooley for California State Attorney General
  • What the People of Los Angeles Should Know About Their Police Department
  • An Appeal to the Readers of This Column
  • Does An Army of Exempt Aides Politicize or Corrupt the City’s Civil Service System?
  • The Rise and Fall of A Mayor Who Refused to Play By The Rules
  • The Politicians at City Hall Are at Least as Self-serving as the Politicians in Bell
  • Mismanaging Employees Jacks up the Cost of City Government
  • It’s Great to be an American
  • Measuring the Job Performance of Civil Service Employees
  • Would an Honest Mayor
  • Statement to the L.A. City Board of Civil Service Commissioners
  • Her Name is Margaret M. Whelan, and She’s Wasting Your Money
  • Could the City’s Budget Gap Be Closed Without Cutting City Services?
  • It’s Time, Angelenos, To Make Your Voices Heard; City Service Is In Danger!
  • It’s Time, Angelenos to Make Your Voices Heard at City Hall!
  • Is Anyone at City Hall Serving the People of Los Angeles?
  • Probation: It’s the Working Test, Stupid!
  • Improving Human Resource Management in City Service
  • The Mess in Civil Service: It Smells a Lot Like Collusion
  • In Los Angeles, Council Committees Must Be Held Accountable
  • Holes in the City Charter Rip Holes in Our Leaders’ Credibility
  • When Duty Calls, The Los Angeles City Council Doesn’t Listen
  • In Defense of the New City Attorney in Los Angeles
  • What If the Los Angeles Zoo Were Run by Personnel Experts?
  • City Management and the “Don’t Snitch” Syndrome
  • Mushrooms Thrive in the Dark; Voters Need Transparency
  • Restoring the Board of Civil Service Commissioners
  • Did Mayor Riordan Really Think the End Justifies the Means?
  • A New Version of a Very Old Mother Goose Rhyme
  • The Next Mayor of Los Angeles Will Have a Very Big Job
  • What City Management in Los Angeles Could Learn from Jack Welsh
  • Civil Service and the Misguided De-Regulators at City Hall
  • At City Hall, “PELT” Means Public Employees For Lower Taxes and in Los Angeles, The Pelters Are Out to Make a Comeback!
  • The Election of Trutanich is Good News for Angelenos
  • Fifty Thousand Employees: An Under-utilized Resource in City Government
  • “But Not My Son”
  • Why Carmen Trutanich Should Be the Next City Attorney in Los Angeles
  • Is the Mayor Doing All He Can to Raise Workforce Productivity in City Service?
  • The March 3, 2009 Primary Campaign for Los Angeles City Attorney
  • An Open Letter to the Mayor on the Need to Restore Civil Service in L.A.